Pod 366: A Weird Movies Podcast

This week, El Rob Hubbard joins Greg on the pod to discuss new releases. First up, the Duke Johnson-directed, Charlie Kaufman-produced amnesia feature "The Actor" starts a limited run in theaters, Luis Buñuel's Mexican melodrama "El" gets a re-release from Janus, and "Rats!" invade your VOD screens. In physical media, Mondo Macabro brings us Indonesia's "...

Giles and Greg return to discuss the weird movie releases for the first week of March: A24's Zambian "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl"; Bruno Dumont's space spoof "The Empire" (with Van der Weyden and Carpentier); the notorious Bruce LaBruce creates another provocation with his sexually explicit "Teorema" variation, "The Visitor"; anime classic "Akira...

Giles and Greg are back to give you the skinny on a big week in weird physical media releases! Our excitement builds for Berlin Film Festival honoree "The Ice Tower", and gonzo comedy "Rats!" hits the big screen. Physical media sees the Criterion Collection get their hands on "Performance" (1970); the "Street Trash" 2024 remake shows up on North American Blu...

On Pod 366 this week: news about a new animation studio fronted by Masaaki Yuasa; Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "The Ice Tower" debuts in Berlin; a Slamdance preview focusing on "In the Mouth" and "Universe 25"; experimental sci-fi romance "Love Me" hits VOD; and a special edition Blu-ray release of vampiric anime "Kizumonogatari - Koyomi Vamp."

Our special Valentine's Day episode, with no sappy Valentine content to muck things up! Instead, Giles and Greg discuss weird movie news: a distribution deal for the surreal video game story "OBEX"; a crowdfunding campaign for the dark musical "The Slaughter Brothers' Dime Circus"; the theatrical release of Matthew Rankin's anticipated Winnipeg/Persian "Univers...

In which Giles and Greg officially announce the nominees for the 2024-25 Weirdcademy Awards (public voting begins on Sunday, February 9th, at 366weirdmovies.com). Before the big reveal, we discuss five Sundance debuts we'll be looking for in the coming year ("By Design," "Dead Lover," "OBEX," "Rabbit Trap," and "The Thing with Feathers"), and t...

Join us for our sexiest episode ever, as we engage in a PG-rated discussion of a handful of X-rated movies. But first, Greg and Giles go through the week's child-friendly releases, with items like the post-apocalyptic A.I romance "Love Me"; the underground animation compilation "Death Laughs Among Us"; the "Hundreds of Beavers" Blu-ray; "Ghost Cat Anzu"...

Greg, El Rob and Penguin Pete discuss the career of David Lynch and what he's meant to us, for about an hour. Key takeaway: Lynch is better than peyote. Also, we breeze through this week's new home video releases: new 4K UHD's of "The Cell," "Kill Bill" Vol.s 1 & 2, and "The Substance"; Blu-rays of "Feed," "Love and Crime," and Guy...

Giles Edwards, "El" Rob Hubbard, and Greg Smalley reveal their picks for weirdest movies of the year and best weird movie of the year (there is a difference), then mash them up into a consensus top 10 Weird Movies of 2024 list. Which of the following shortlisted contenders made 2024's final weird cut? A Different Man * Abruptio * The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost * Adult Swim Yule Log...

Our first episode ever with two guests, as Vera Drew became available shortly before this episode was set to record. We include her interview as a bonus. Evan Marlowe talks to us extensively about the challenges of making his puppet horror film "Abruptio," followed by Vera Drew chatting about overcoming obstacles both legal and practical to make the trans-friendly superhero parody "The People's Jo...

In this episode Giles and Greg decide if each new release is naughty (i.e., weird) or nice (i.e., for your grandma). We rate the upcoming underground surreal serial killer feature "Bradlee"; the surprise drop of "Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branchin' Out"; the Leos Carax remix "It's Not Me"; Bertrand Bonello's "The Beast" on Blu-ray; the not-one-night-only release of "Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto's...

Greg and Giles are back after Thanksgiving break, thankful to be bringing you the week's intra-holiday weird movie news. Discussed this week: the "366 Weird Movies Guide Vol. 1" in library [sic]; Amy Adams is "Nightbitch"; surreal spoof "Dream Team" on VOD; Ed Wood's pornographic "Hard Wood" box set; various limited editions of "Hundreds of Beavers" for eager Beaverheads; and "Aguirre: the Wrath o...

This week, Bradley Kornish and Dan Pullen join Giles and Greg to talk about whatever interests them, which frequently includes the movies we're discussing this week (but also means, for some reason, discussions of formaldehyde chemistry sets and "Pete's Dragon"). The on-topic releases we mention are a new semi-remake of the gooey hobo comedy "Street Trash"; the Criterion Collection's "CC40" mega-b...

El Rob Hubbard joins Greg for this episode to discuss the week's new weird releases (and one biggie that's coming next week). On the slate this week: wide release kiddie anime "Ghost Cat Anzu"; very limited release (one theater) absurdist 90s erotic thriller spoof "Dream Team"; Mexican magical realist feature "Pedro Páramo" hits Netflix; "Megalopolis" arrives on VOD; special Blu-ray releases of Ca...

This week, we catch up on Don Hertzfeld news (new short "Me" plus an upcoming feature); the theatrical debut of indie black comedy "Hippo"; "A Different Man" on VOD; 2023's weirdest movie, Godfrey Reggio's surrealist "Once Within a Time," comes to VOD and physical media; and limited edition 4K sets of "Suspiria" (Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake) and "The Wizard of Oz."

Happy Day of the Dead! This week, Gre-gory Smalley and Giles Deadwards discuss the week's weird new releases. First, the bizarro beauty satire "The Substance" hits Mubi streaming. Also on Mubi: a hidden short from David Cronenberg with the imposing but accurate title of "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection." Also: the Belgian crime comedy "The Othe...

Our Halloween season guest is Paolo Zelati, author of "American Nightmares," a book of interviews with American horror directors of the 60s through the 80s. He's also a collaborator on George Romero's final screenplay, the as-yet-unproduced "Twilight of the Dead." Paolo has lots of interesting stories, but before we get to him Greg and Giles go through the week's new weird releases: "Vampire Zombi...

Greg and Giles again cover the week's weird news and releases, beginning with a shout out to "The Substance." Other items discussed: Bi Gan alert for "Resurrection," Guy Maddin and the Johnson's release G7 satire "Rumours"; an experimental hip-hop feature entitled "Once Again (For the Very First Time)"; "Caligula: The Ultimatet Cut"'s arrival on VOD hopefully ends our endless coverage of the re-im...

It's a workmanlike pre-Halloween episode as Greg and Giles run down the week's weird news and releases. First up, New Yorkers take note of the retrospective "So as to Dream: The Eternal Mysteries of Kaizo Hayashi" put on by Japan Society: it features many rarely seen films, some newly restored. Everyone can avail themselves of the wide theatrical rerelease of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (take...

This week Nadia Robertson, a background extra on "Megalopolis" (and a more prominent extra in the upcoming "Saturday Night"), joins us to discuss her experiences on Francis Ford Coppola's set. Nadia has a lot of tea to spill, but first she helps Giles, Greg, and Robert quickly run through the week's releases, starting with announcements for some very cool double features playing at Beyond Fest no...

Psycho Ape linktree for all your Psycho Ape needs: https://linktr.ee/PsychoApe Greg and Giles talk to Addison Binek and Greg DeLiso, co-directors of "Psycho Ape Part II: The Wrath of Kong," about their crowdfunded cult comedy (Part II) about the trial of a killer ape. But first, all four of us look at the week's massive slate of new and archival releases: "Megalopolis" is f...

Greg and Giles run down the week's new weird releases, starting with another starring role for Adam Pearson in the psychological whatsit "A Different Man"; GKids rerelease of "Howl's Moving Castle" to theaters nationwide next week; a preview of Fantastic Fest (with a Corey Feldman sighting); a reminder that "Cuckoo" is coming to VOD; "Caligula: The Ultima...

Greg and Giles use this episode to announce the official release of the "366 Weird Movies Guide, Vol. 1"! But they only jabber on about it for 10 minutes before segueing into the week's new releases, starting with the hallucinatory low-budget Australian crime/horror mashup "Psychosis" on VOD; a Blu-ray of Signe Baumane's celebrated animation "My Love Affair with Ma...

Festival season caught 366 unawares, and Greg's discombobulation be heard in some technical issues that recall the Pod's earliest days (and in the unforgivable omission of Matthew Rankin's sophomore feature "Universal Language" from our TIFF coverage, which is corrected in the blog post.) At any rate, the guys just barely manage to get through a massive slate of topics, begin...

This week, Greg and Giles are joined (for the third time) by Michael Reich and Mike Pinkney of "She's Allergic to Cats," who talk about the lavish new Blu-ray release of their psychedelic black comedy. But first, the entire crew go through the week's meaty set of weird movie releases: Australian art-house effort "Petrol," in theaters; "Kinds of Kindness" arriv...